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I figure this is probably the best place to ask if anyone can help me decipher this horribly written product page. A friend of mine who isn't super computer savvy is looking to build a gaming PC; my friends and I have helped him pick out all the parts and everything, and the last step is to get a copy of Windows. He's a college student, so he should be eligible for that student offer, but we can't figure out what they're actually selling there. The only version of Windows that he currently owns is an OEM copy of Vista on his lovely laptop, so he can't take advantage of any "upgrade" offers. That should be no problem, since the picture there clearly says "Full version" on it, right? But then the description says "Important: Windows 8.1 Pro full version is for Windows 7 users only. Currently running Windows Vista or XP? First upgrade to Windows 8 Pro Upgrade – Student Offer. Upon installation you can update to 8.1 for free.", which links to... an upgrade version... which would be distinct from a full version... like the one they're supposedly selling on the original page. If he were to buy that, would he be able to install it on a fresh hard drive without a previous version of Windows? Hell, is whatever you're downloading from this offer even capable of making an ISO or USB installer as opposed to installing purely from the hard drive with a previous version of Windows? I have no idea and the product page offers no clues. My friend tried calling the support number on the page, but they were of course unhelpful, trying to upsell him on something called "Windows 8 System Builder" without actually answering any of his questions. Can anyone shine any light on this? Lork fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Dec 1, 2013 |
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Dec 1, 2013 05:01
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Read posted:Is it possible his college offers DreamSpark? Because if it does he can just straight up download Windows from there. With any luck he can just do that, but if not, hopefully someone can explain this student offer thing.
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Dec 1, 2013 05:18
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Does anybody know of a good program to monitor bandwidth use on a local network? Something that can tell me how much bandwidth is being used by which computer, for how long, and if possible, for what purpose.
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Jul 23, 2014 05:00
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37th Chamber posted:You best bet is probably flashing a router with dd-wrt/Tomato
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Jul 25, 2014 00:58
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Nintendo Kid posted:Frankly the whole lawsuit about browser competition was silly since Netscape was dying anyway due to wanting actual money for a browser that they didn't bother keeping updated; and other at the time paid browsers like Opera weren't really capable of matching feature sets yet.
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Aug 30, 2014 14:56
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Thanks guys. I knew it had to be more complex than it looks like from the outside, as these things always are. It just looks really black and white if you don't know the details.
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Aug 30, 2014 21:19
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Does anybody know of a good modern download manager? Like the ones everybody had to use back in the dark days of dial-up. There's a file I'm trying to download that seems to be hosted on an extremely slow and unreliable server. I need something that can resume in the case of a dropped connection rather than going  "20 of 800mb completed and the connection closed? Pack it up boys, we're done!" like Chrome does.
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Jun 12, 2015 19:29
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Will do, thanks.
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Jun 12, 2015 19:40
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Ynglaur posted:That worked! Thank you!
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Jul 28, 2015 20:46
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The instant that Windows 10 finished installing Microsoft sent me an email saying that I've reached the device limit for installing stuff from the Windows Store. When I checked the account there was just the one computer with Windows 10, so uh, what's going on?
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Jul 30, 2015 01:18
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Rexxed posted:Stuff's broken on the first day of release, I'm sure they'll sort it out eventually. While Windows 10 is working fine on a couple of my computers I'm following the standard advice of waiting a month or two for them to iron out some of the big issues before I put it on anything important.
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Jul 30, 2015 01:53
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That's definitely not how they're supposed to look. I remember Jeff Gerstmann talking about how some versions of the Windows 10 preview were loving up his fonts in Chrome on a podcast, so maybe that has something to do with it? However, I'm using Chrome with the released Windows 10 right now and my fonts are very much unfucked.
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Jul 31, 2015 20:25
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The extension I was using to zoom in on images in Chrome was killed by a recent update and it's a god drat tragedy. Does anybody know if there's still an extension out there that can easily increase/decrease the size of an image inline that just happens to be so poorly named that I haven't been able to find it in my desperate searches?
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Mar 31, 2016 00:37
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crestfallen posted:https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hover-zoom%20/pccckmaobkjjboncdfnnofkonhgpceea?hl=en
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Mar 31, 2016 03:56
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WorkingStiff posted:Imagus?
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Mar 31, 2016 04:52
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The thing that confuses me is that if all it takes to run an OS on a machine with Secure Boot turned on is for the OS to not have certain authentication keys, what's to stop the "nefarious" entities that Secure Boot is supposedly protecting against from doing exactly that? That doesn't seem very uh, secure... to me.
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Jun 26, 2016 02:42
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I don't know if this is the right place for this so apologies if not, but I have a really weird problem. At some point a few months ago, Youtube's "resume from where you left off" feature stopped working for me. Normally when you're watching a video and you close the tab or navigate away, it's supposed to save your position and then automatically jump back to it if you view the video again. I know they didn't just remove the feature for no reason because it still works for a friend of mine. For a long time I assumed it was just a problem with Chrome, or handled by one of the 8000 scripts I haven't allowed with uMatrix. However, I just tested it in Firefox and Edge and it still doesn't work. What the heck is going on and how can I get my saved video positions back?
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Jun 27, 2016 04:20
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Ynglaur posted:Do you have cookies disabled for those sites? I'm guessing blindly.
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Jun 27, 2016 20:00
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Jago posted:Use a smart phone? Not trying to be a smart rear end here.
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Jul 13, 2016 02:44
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Khablam posted:It's slower than every alternative; 'it works fine' isn't the problem people are trying to solve. There was a time when Acrobat was horrendous, which is why all the alternatives got popular, but every one I tried had limitations and most were buggy as hell. Eventually I just gave up and went back to Acrobat, but found that they had cleaned up their act in the meantime. There's no reason to bother with alternatives unless you happen to have an existing relationship with one that you really like for some reason.
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Oct 17, 2016 04:08
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Factor Mystic posted:Get Process Explorer and turn on whatever Network IO columns you want. Edit: Looks like you have to run it as administrator before the option will show up. Lork fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Nov 4, 2016 |
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Nov 4, 2016 23:12
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What are some things I can try to deal with a bad update for Windows 10? The tablet I have to use for work got stuck on an update for Office that it spends an obnoxious amount of time trying to install, failing, and then undoing every time I turn it on or off. After wasting hours of my time over multiple days trying cookie cutter non solutions, tech support said they couldn't fix the problem unless I mail it to them, which I'm not going to do. In previous versions of Windows you could hide an update if it was giving you trouble, but I don't know what can be done in 10.
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Jan 5, 2017 07:39
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mindphlux posted:this is cookiecutter but Lork fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Jan 9, 2017 |
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Jan 7, 2017 22:20
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mindphlux posted:did you
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Jan 9, 2017 23:34
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"My Documents" or "Documents" as they call it now is an unusable folder that should probably just be marked as hidden by default at this point. Make a new folder somewhere to store your actual documents and add it to your libraries.
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Aug 29, 2017 22:10
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Supposedly one of the things Microsoft was going to add in the 'Fall Creators Update' for Windows 10 was the ability to copy something on your desktop and paste it using Swiftkey on your phone. Well, I've installed the update but I can't seem to access this feature. What happened to it? The only information I can find on it are articles talking about the announcement.
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Dec 10, 2017 22:27
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Gromit posted:I've got uBlock Origin installed on Firefox. Does anyone know if it is easy to block a particular in-line javascript from running? That is, the page doesn't call an external file but has that script within the html. I thought it would be as easy as adding something like "webpage.com##script:contains(keyword)" in the "My Filters" dashboard page of uBO but that seems to have no effect.
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Jan 20, 2018 01:34
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I've got a Windows license conundrum for you all: A friend of mine has a copy of 8.1 that he upgraded to 10, but ended up rolling back because hated it. Since then he's run into some hardware trouble and replaced his motherboard and CPU. In light of the aggressive tactics Microsoft is taking to force people to upgrade, he's now resigned to his fate and is planning on switching to 10. But the question is, what's the status of his license? After the rollback it told him that he was free to go back to 10 at any time, but with a new motherboard and CPU, his computer is presumably a "different one" now, so does that still apply? Complicating matters is the fact that rolling back screwed up a bunch of miscellaneous things (several scheduled tasks, like clock synchronization stopped working for example), so he'd very much prefer to do a clean install if possible. Is there a way to non destructively test if the license will work on his computer?
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Feb 12, 2018 23:43
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Rexxed posted:If his windows 8 install is activated (check the system control panel), he can re-upgrade it to windows 10. His new hardware is probably not licensed for Windows 10 without doing that. If it were me, I'd probably do the 8 to 10 upgrade, then if issues with the OS persist, do a windows 10 reset to clean it up. Failing that, after the upgrade, wipe the disk and install 10 fresh (the reset should essentially be the same as this so it's likely to be unnecessary).
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Feb 13, 2018 11:05
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Does anybody know how to get Application Guard to work? I've installed it as per these instructions and restarted my computer, but the "New Application Guard Window" option doesn't show up in Edge. I have Win 10 Pro 1803 and virtualization is enabled.
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Aug 15, 2018 04:35
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You could try opening them with the Windows photo viewer. It's actually capable of playing (and even editing) video for some reason.
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Apr 17, 2019 03:32
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I'm about to upgrade my CPU, motherboard and RAM. What's going to happen to my Windows 10 license?
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May 17, 2019 22:36
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:OEM or retail?
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May 17, 2019 23:06
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I finished the upgrade and tried to activate, but it it just keeps saying the activation servers are unavailable. Even if I could get through, according to this I'm hosed anyway: quote:What happens if I change my motherboard? Edit: I managed to get it activated via phone support. Lork fucked around with this message at 05:09 on May 18, 2019 |
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